Nintendo..did It Bring Back Video Games?

LunaticCrow · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:09 pm Post subject:

Didnt Atari produce videogames in the 80's?

:huh:
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KeheiZero · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

The way I remember it was that Nintendo really brought games to new levels with the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) which came about around 1990, maybe a bit earlier, I'm not sure. After that we had the Sega Mega Drive and SNES going at it for popularity.
Nintendo really started to make something out of gaming, but gaming still went on during the 80s. A couple of the big consoles around then were the Atari 2600 (which I had ^_^ ) and the ZX Spectrum. In terms of games, you'd be looking at stuff like Space Invaders, Centipede, Mario Bros, Pong. Some real old school stuff.

Doubt I've shed any light on things, but what the hey.

Pic below is an Atari 2600.
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fallenangel · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject:

You forgot ColecoVision. Sad

1982
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NintendoArielle · Member Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 45

Nintendo saved the industry after it crashed. After Atari's E.T. cartridges were buried in New Mexico (I kid you not,) Atari went downhill and home console gaming as we know it ceased to exist. But then the all-mighty Nintendo game along...

And then the God of Gaming (Shigeru Miyamoto, AKA: Shiggy, Shigster, etc.) proclaimed "Let there be games!" And then he ate a mushroom sandwich.

However, those mushrooms were poison mushrooms, and he started to see spots and red and green plumbers. He used this hallucination to make the Mario Bros. series.

Later on, he ate another poisonous mushroom sandwich to get an idea for a new character in a game he was going to make called "Super Mario World." Then along came...Yoshi in all his glory. He was ridable, too. Shiggy got the "riding" idea after eating a mushroom candy bar while riding one of those kiddy mechanical animal rides that you insert the quarter in at the grocery store.

Okay...paragraphics two through four are complete BS, but the first one is true. Wink

Stratadrake · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:

Two answers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1977

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_crash_of_1983

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Kes · Forum Stalker Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 1549 Location: UK

The first Zelda game was made for the very first 8 bit nintendo in 1987. So the first nintendo was kind of made in the late 80's.
I remember a computer like console that did a game called Frog in the 80's, just can't remember the name.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:25 am Post subject:

I say the real age of video gaming started when Nintendo developed Famicom in the late 80's. Smile

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KeheiZero · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

[quote]You forgot ColecoVision. 1982[/quote]

I'm afraid to say I've never seen this console. Sad

[quote]After Atari's E.T. cartridges were buried in New Mexico (I kid you not,)[/quote]

I had that game! Laughing

It was s**t. Grr!

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fallenangel · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

ColecoVision had Donkey Kong. And better graphics than Atari.

http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/colecovision/
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KeheiZero · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:09 am Post subject:

Ah, [i]Donkey Kong[/i], who knew a bout of kidnapping would make an ape so famous...
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[quote="NintendoArielle (Arielle)"] Nintendo saved the industry after it crashed. After Atari's E.T. cartridges were buried in New Mexico (I kid you not,) Atari went downhill and home console gaming as we know it ceased to exist. [/quote]
I thought it was Utah? Either way, I HAVE an original E.T. cartrige. That game sucks s**t in reverse. ^_^
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Stratadrake · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:

[b]QUOTE[/b] (NintendoArielle)

Nintendo saved the industry after it crashed. After Atari's E.T. cartridges were buried in New Mexico (I kid you not,) Atari went downhill and home console gaming as we know it ceased to exist.[/quote]
*ahem* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_crash_of_1983

Apologies for just spouting out a link. It's a good read, though.
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